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5 Dollars - Leonard I Billy Sunday
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Local coin |
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| Reverse description | A forward-facing portrait bust of William Ashley 'Billy' Sunday, the American baseball player and evangelist, is centrally positioned in moderate relief, depicting him in a collared shirt and bow tie with close-cropped hair. The name 'BILLY' SUNDAY arcs prominently along the upper legend. The denomination FIVE DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower arc, with the numeral 5 appearing to the right of the portrait. To the left of the bust, the motto IN GOD WE TRUST and the date 1993 are inscribed in the field. A small mint mark or maker's device appears to the lower right of the numeral 5. |
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| Mintage | 1993 - Brilliant Uncirculated |
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Hutt River Province — formally the Principality of Hutt River — was a micronation declared by farmer Leonard Casley in 1970 after a dispute with the Western Australian government over wheat quotas. Casley styled himself Prince Leonard I and issued coins, stamps, and passports for decades with surprising bureaucratic consistency. Billy Sunday, the American evangelist commemorated on this piece, died in 1935 — making his appearance on a 1993 micronational coin from rural Western Australia a pairing that demands explanation this catalog entry cannot supply.